Wolves boss Mick McCarthy was delighted to see his side maintain their 100% start to the season yesterday - but says he is not keen on the idea of them qualifying for Europe any time soon.

Wanderers followed up their opening-day victory at Blackburn with a 2-0 home triumph against Fulham, who have already played eight other games this term due to their exploits in the Europa League qualifying rounds.

McCarthy was sure facing Ukrainian outfit Dnipro in the competition only three days earlier would have taken its toll on the Cottagers, the kind of problem he is glad he does not have to deal with.

"I think Fulham were at a definite disadvantage having played on Thursday night," McCarthy said.

"I can't imagine - it will be a long time before I want to get into the Europa League.

"If we look like getting in through the Fair Play League, I'm going to tackle somebody!"

The result means Wolves have recorded back-to-back league wins at the start of a campaign for the first time since the 1998-99 season.

They also temporarily moved to the top of the Barclays Premier League table - before being overtaken by Manchester City later in the day - but McCarthy is not paying much attention to the standings at this early stage.

He said: "I'm not really bothered about the league position - we start near the bottom every year alphabetically!

"But it's nice to win two games, back-to-back in the Premier League. It is a really good achievement."

Kevin Doyle opened the scoring in the 42nd minute when he collected Matt Jarvis' pass and smashed a shot past Mark Schwarzer.

Jarvis then doubled the hosts' advantage in first-half stoppage time, pouncing after Roger Johnson's header had come back off the woodwork.

Fulham manager Martin Jol admitted his team's European campaign was not making their lives any easier.

"There is a part of me that thinks we can do well in Europe, and there is another part of me that knows it is probably almost impossible to do well and get to the final as Fulham did two years ago," Jol said.

"Of course, if we start playing all the competitions in England, we could probably do without the Europa League.

"But we are in it, and hopefully we can get through to the group stages. I am happy we are in it."

Cottagers striker Bobby Zamora missed the game at Molineux after picking up an ankle injury and is a doubt for the play-off second leg against Dnipro on Thursday.